Bonus Quest: Find the remains of Emma's Father Reward: Choose 1 of Emma's skills
Looking at the notification Ivan fell into deep thought. After a while, he decided to check all of Emma's skills. With just a brief thought of skills, an interface popped up.
Skills: Forage, Focused Hearing, Silent Breathing Forage: Harvesting from wild plants will yield high-quality goods Focused Hearing: When focused, You will be able to identify different sounds and isolate them Silent Breathing: A passive skill that gives you the ability to breathe quietly
"It seems forage is the most useful skill here, having the ability to make sure what I gather is of high quality is definitely better than having the ability to breathe quietly or focusing my hearing."
Ivan now conducted his plan he will sneak out at dawn when her mother was still sleeping.
He will need a small basket for storage and a small blade for gathering and self-defense.
Using his focused hearing he hears his mother breathing at a slow and even pace which means that she was still asleep.
Ivan equipped with his equipment left the house to go to the town's gate. Leaving the town might post more problems than sneaking out of the house. Whilst walking people were greeting him.
"Good Morning Emma. You are up early are you going to the town market to buy some food for breakfast?" said an old man wearing a straw hat.
"Not really, I'm going out of town to pick some berries and fruits," Ivan replied.
Then the old man looked at Emma with concerned eyes and said.
"Be careful outside Emma make sure you don't go into the forest you might get lost and also I heard there are monsters out there in the Enmiker Forest."
Ivan just nods and continued his way to the gate. At the gate, Ivan greeted the guards and told them that he is going to pick some fruits and berries outside. The guards also told Emma to be careful and not go into the forest. In which he nods in reply.
"Leaving the town was too easy," Ivan said to himself.
Now outside Ivan hurriedly walks on a laid-out path with trees and bushes on the side some have fruits and some have none. hoping that Emma's mother hadn't woken up yet and starts to search for her daughter. Ivan sprinted away about two hundred meters away he runs off the pavement and into the forest.
On the bottom right of his field of view, a small picture of soft blade grass is shown with a number of 0/20.
Soft Blade Grass 0/20
Checking the grass in the surroundings none of them looked like the one in the photo so he continued deeper into the forest to look for it. About half a mile into the forest. Trees became taller and taller, sunlight has now been blocked by the leaves above making the forest look eerie and damp.
"This place is giving me the creeps"
With the clicking noises of the bugs and chirps of the bird, Ivan wandered into the forest while marking the trees to make sure he doesn't get lost. Then he found grass with a hilt that looks like a sword that is stuck on the ground.
"Finally I found it, It's only one though too bad. Guess I'll harvest it for now and check its stats."
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Soft Blade Grass: Grass imbued with the blood and energy of a nearby battle Ratings: 19/100 (Ratings is based on overall usefulness) Uses: N/A
"So the grass is actually made from the remnants of fighting this may help me in finding Emma's Father"
After he finished Gathering the Soft Blade Grass he scanned his surroundings, nothing was out of the norm. A few bugs on the trees and some tall grass here and there but there are no signs of fighting. Looking over the amount of soft blade grass he managed to gather 4 leaves in one stalk it seems he needed to find 4 more to complete his quest. Without having to ability to see the sun thanks to the tall trees he checked for time in his status.
Time: 8 hours left
"Time sure moves fast" Ivan muttered to himself.
This time Ivan decided to use his focused hearing to detect the nearby surroundings. From the sounds of birds chirping, snakes hissing and insect wings flapping. He managed to isolate the sound of a tall grass that was whipping through the air.
Going in the direction of the sound, he discovers 2 stalks of soft blade grass. He hurriedly harvested them and went on his way to find more. In about a few hours he manages to find 1 more.
"I'm almost done just one more stalk and I'll have 20 leaves and I'm finally getting out of this place"
Ivan decided to make his way back and hope to find 1 more stalk of grass on the way to town. Using his focused hearing one more time, he hears something different, a growl hearing this he panicked. He decided to make a run for the pavement on the road. Whilst running he hears something following behind looking behind him he saw a wolf and a big one at that then a screen popped up.
Name: Enmiker Lone Wolf Status: Hungry Threat level: Highly Dangerous (Threat level depends on the capabilities in combat of Ivan/Client) Note: It is said that a Lone wolf is more dangerous than a pack of wolves because they have nothing to lose.
Seeing this, Ivan loses his sh*t and decides to run as fast as possible and scream for help.
"HEEEELP!! HEEEELP MEEE!! There's a wild wolf behind me HEEEELP!!!"
He continues to run whilst screaming but the wolf gets closer every second. He looks back one more time and it seems he is just 5 feet away from the wolf perfect distance to get jumped on.
He know that he was screwed he racked his mind and planned. An idea came to his mind and he used the focused hearing ability to Isolate the wolf's footstep. Then when the wolf jumped he would hurriedly do a 180 spin and thrust his small blade as strong as he can hoping that the wolf would jump into his blade.
Like a stroke of luck the wolf did and got stabbed in the neck while its maw was ever so close to his face. They both dropped to the ground and none of them were moving not even an inch. Ivan was now tired of fighting a battle for his life. It was definitely hard, especially in a body of a little girl so he decided to close his eyes and rest for a while.
After a while, Ivan woke up above him a corpse of a once strong wolf. He stood up but his dress(He is still Emma) was now soaked in blood. He breathes out in relief and found a blade of grass sprouting nearby it seems that Soft Blade Grass grows fast near battles. He collects it and decided to go home with only 3 hours left remaining.
After walking for an hour he was really tired but he knows he can't rest or else he will fail and failure means death. On the pavement road, he saw multiple people, one of them pointed at him and he heard them say.
"Look that's Emma over there, Hurry!"
Ivan watched them run towards him while he ever so slightly collapsed from fatigue. Like darkness and unwillingness, he decided to accept his fate.
Calibrating.. Rating Performance: 40/100 Job Successful
Ivan woke up like a flash of lighting checking his surroundings made his eyes hurt, like he was staring at the sun, his eyesight slowly adjust while some elevator music was playing in the background.
"What happened did I fail?" Ivan muttered.
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